Ad regias Agni dapes

At the Lamb's Royal Banquet

Hallock, Peter R. (1924–2014)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SB

Accompaniment:
Organ → With Instruments

Function/Language(s):
Latin

Occasion:

Proper of Time → Easter Season → General Easter Season

Publication Information:
Ionian Arts — CH-1045 (2001)
Composed 1980.

Text Information:
Reference: Vespers hymn for Easter season
Source: Liturgy of the Hours

Lyrics:

Ad regias Agni dapes,
Stolis amicti candidis,
Post transitum maris Rubri,
Christo canamus principi.

Divina cujus caritas
Sacrum propinat sanguinem,
Almique membra corporis
Amor sacredos immolat.

Victor subactis inferis
Trophaea Christus explicat,
et caeloque aperto.

English translation:
At the Lamb’s royal banquet,
clothed in white robes,
and with the journey through the Red Sea behind us,
let us sing to Christ our King.
	
His divine love
gives us his sacred blood to drink,
And his love, priest-like, offers us
his loving body as our sacrificial food.

Now triumphant over hell
Christ displays his trophies,
and opens to us the gates of heaven.

Notes: Two unequal voices (unison women, unison men). Oboe, English Horn, Organ.
Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Jan 28, 2022 Last updated: Jan 28, 2022